Tarek Maaroufi

Tarek Maaroufi was a co-founder of the Tunisian Combatant Group terrorist group in Tunisia. He and Seifallah Ben Hassine founded the TCG at an al-Qaeda training camp in Khost, Afghanistan, where they trained several Tunisian Islamists with the goal of overthrowing the secular regime back home. He supplied fake Belgian passports to the suicide bombers who killed Northern Alliance commander Ahmad Shah Massoud two days before the 9/11 attacks in September 2001, for which he was arrested in December 2001 and sentenced to five years in prison in 2004. On 26 January 2009, he lost his nationality due to three terrorism convictions.